WAVERLY, Iowa – No. 10/13 women's basketball is back in American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) action this week with a road matchup against Loras College on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 5:30 p.m. before coming back home on Saturday, Feb. 8 for Senior Day against Nebraska Wesleyan University at 2 p.m.
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The Series
- Loras
- Wartburg leads the all-time series 65-29
- The Knights are 27-13 on the road in the series
- The Knights won this season's previous matchup 80-59
- Wartburg is 8-2 in its last 10 games against Loras
- Nebraska Wesleyan
- The Knights are 22-1 all-time against NWU
- Wartburg won the first matchup this season 68-56
- The Knights have won 19 straight games in this series
Wartburg
- The Knights enter the week winners of 10-straight games with an overall record of 18-2 and an A-R-C record of 11-0
- Wartburg is 42-1 in A-R-C play since the start of the 2022-23 season
- Currently ranked No. 10 in the latest Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) poll and No. 13 in the latest D3hoops.com poll
- Sara Faber (16.3), Jaedon Murphy (15.4) and Lauren Woeste (14.0) are all averaging 10+ points per game this season
- All rank inside the top 10 (third, fifth and 10th respectively)
- Wartburg is the top rebounding team in the A-R-C with a margin of +8.6 (1.5 higher than second place)
- Leads conference in offensive rebounds per game (13.3) and ranks second in defensive rebounds per game (28.2)
- Woeste and Murphy lead the team in rebounding with 8.1 and 7.3 rebounds per game respectively (Both are top seven individually in rebounding in the A-R-C)
- Murphy (1.8) and Grace Hennessy (1.3) are first and fourth in blocked shots per game among all A-R-C student athletes
- The Knights have the top scoring defense in the A-R-C with an average of 53.8 points per game allowed
- Wartburg has the top average scoring margin in the A-R-C at +15.4
- The Knights lead the A-R-C in blocked shots per game (4.60) and ranks second in steals per game as a team (10.85)
- Faber leads the A-R-C in total steals (65) and steals per game (3.3)
- The Wartburg single-season record for steals is 84
- Already set the career record at Wartburg this past week
- The Knights rank third in the A-R-C in assists per game as a team at 15.60 per game
- Both Faber (4.0, third) and Young (3.2, eighth) rank in the top 10 among all A-R-C players in assists per game
Loras
- The Duhawks enter Wednesday's game with an overall record of 8-11 and an A-R-C mark of 5-5
- Went 1-1 last week with a 72-54 loss to Coe and a 65-48 victory over NWU
- Loras ranks seventh in scoring offense (60.8) and third in scoring defense (61.3) among all A-R-C teams
- Claire Wagner currently is fourth in the A-R-C in rebounding with an average of 7.9 per game
- Also ranks in the top 10 in field goal percentage at 51.9%
- Daniella Jarrell ranks inside the top 10 among all A-R-C players in assists (3.9 per game), assist/turnover ratio (1.9) and steals (1.9 per game)
- Loras ranks third in blocked shots in the A-R-C with an average of 3.26 per game
- Ashtyn Kelderman leads Loras individually with an average of 1.4 per game (third in A-R-C)
- Both Wagner (12.1) and Silvana Scarsella (11.4) lead the Duhawks in scoring so far this season
Nebraska Wesleyan
- The Prairie Wolves enter the week with an overall record of 1-19 and an A-R-C mark of 0-11
- On a nine-game losing streak
- NWU ranks last in the A-R-C in both scoring offense (53.5) and scoring defense (76.9)
- Carney Black ranks fifth individually in rebounding with an average of 7.5 per game
- Current team shooting percentages:
- 34.3% FG (Ninth in A-R-C), 27.9% 3P (Seventh in A-R-C) and 67.2% FT (Ninth in A-R-C)
- The Prairie Wolves are ninth in rebounding margin and turnover margin among A-R-C teams
- Maddie Demke is seventh in the A-R-C in steals per game with an average of two per game
- Brynn Sebeck (9.3), Black (8.6) and Demke (8.4) all average above eight points for NWU this season
